Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee (born July 21, 1970, New Delhi, India), aged 56, is an Indian-American physician and writer (born 1970). Mukherjee is best known for The Emperor of All Maladies. Mukherjee's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Padma Shri in Medicine and Guardian First Book Award.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Siddhartha Mukherjee’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Siddhartha in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~534
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
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Siddhartha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
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What the chart says
Siddhartha, according to the stars
Core essence
Siddhartha feels the room before entering it. The core of Siddhartha is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Siddhartha, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Siddhartha wants to be loved
Siddhartha wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Siddhartha and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Siddhartha creates
How Siddhartha makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Siddhartha creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Siddhartha is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Siddhartha is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Siddhartha fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Siddhartha's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 21, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Siddhartha Mukherjee was born on July 21, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's birth date, July 21, 1970, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Siddhartha’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Siddhartha Mukherjee's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Siddhartha’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Siddhartha Mukherjee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 9° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.4° to 1.3° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunsextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
Siddhartha’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileUranus3.1° to 3.7° orb
Siddhartha’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.4° to 4.0° orb
Siddhartha’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
Siddhartha’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
Siddhartha’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.4° to 5.0° orb
Siddhartha’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.3° to 7.4° orb
Siddhartha’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Siddhartha’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Siddhartha may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Siddhartha is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 4°27′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Siddhartha is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°33′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Siddhartha is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Siddhartha is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres square Mars 0.6°
- Eros square Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Siddhartha’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Siddhartha is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Siddhartha’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Siddhartha Mukherjee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Siddhartha’s cards
Every card is computed from July 21, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Siddhartha Mukherjee, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Siddhartha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q983450, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Siddhartha Mukherjee at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s chart
- How old is Siddhartha Mukherjee?
- Siddhartha Mukherjee is 56 years old, born July 21, 1970 in New Delhi, India.
- What zodiac sign is Siddhartha Mukherjee?
- Siddhartha Mukherjee is a Cancer: born July 21, 1970, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 21, 1970 birth.
- What time was Siddhartha Mukherjee born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 21, 1970 birth date.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 21, 1970 birth date.
- Where is Siddhartha Mukherjee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Siddhartha Mukherjee's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
